Tony Camara, another former
Aztec, was on his way past the baseball field one morning his freshman year
at SDSU, lamenting the fact he had to be up before 5 a.m. to meet his
biology class for a field trip.

It was a fall Saturday, more than
20 years ago, and Camara remembers what he saw and how it affected him.

"I heard somebody hammering at
the field," said Camara, now a teacher at Grossmont High. "It was Coach.
That made a big impression (that) this guy works hard."